On 28/08/05, Sabine Cretella <sabine_cretella(a)yahoo.it> wrote:
Again: OmegaT (and if possible also other tools) will
be integrated in
UW (we are already talking about the reference implementation) - we can
have a tmx management at a certain stage - please base this stuff on TMX
since this means almost all localisation tools on Lista-Standard can be
used for localisation (also commercial tools like DéjàVu -
http://www.altril.com - but of course I prefer Open Source tools) - so
please have a look at this and send me sample files to try out what the
actual OmegaT-version does and what needs to be changed (I suppose it is
fairly easy to adapt the file parser).
I will have a look at the tools and resources you've mentionned if and
when I get time.
As for example files, please see the links in my previous post
(
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-August/031182.html).
Specifically, you can get any of the files by using URLs like
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/wikipedia/phase3/languages…
(replacing the "LanguageDe.php" bit for German with "LanguageFr.php"
for French, etc, like the wiki domain prefixes, or just "Language.php"
for English).
[...]
whenever there is a new version to translate the
sofware will then give
you the inserted translation pair source/target as 100% match or if
wording was slightly changed as partial match.
That sounds like it could be the right kind of thing - after all, I
doubt MediaWiki is the first to face this conflict between i18n and
customization (c11n?), so there *ought* to be tools out there that
attempt to deal with it to some extent.
I know that this is not the ordinary wiki-tool and I
know that it might
seem strange to whoever is not a translator used to CAT-Tools, but it
really is a great tool built for localisation/translation work.
Like I say, a wiki-like tool is tempting, but is probably rather like
"reinventing the wheel" compared to using an existing specialist tool.
[And we can always customise it to *look* like MediaWiki - we've got
"MonoBook" skins for Bugzilla and even LiveJournal already, after all
;p]
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]